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Event row types (WIP)
This morning I made some change to the way that I get events data from Core Data. I outlined my thinking behind this yesterday. Today I put it into practice in the app. There are two types of events in Retrospective Timeline I wanted a way to explode the second type of event into multiple…
Follow up to event sorting
This is a short follow up article regarding the problems I described in this post. I spent some time mocking this up in a Swift Playground on my iPad. First I added a new container object called EventContainer. This is an object that I can map my events to, while keeping a reference to the…
Thoughts on sorting events
Objective: I need a way to sort events in a list view that makes them easy to find. Constrains: Options: I’d like to proceed with option three from the list above. Using this approach will place an event in the list twice if it has a start and end date. I can format the rows…
The app I’ve been working on
The app I’ve been working on over the last few months is called Retrospective Timelines. I’m still trying to learn how to talk (and write) about the app in a way that makes sense and appeals to customers, but for now I’ll just write a bit about what it is and what it does. This…
One week with SwiftUI
I just wrapped up a week of working with SwiftUI full time. It certainly has some rough edges and each new beta version brings a lot of changes. Here is a recap of what’s working for me and what I still need to figure out. List views are really simple in SwiftUI. The first layout…
Thinking about SwiftUI
Last week I decided to spend the weekend learning about SwiftUI. The weekend turned into an entire week but I was eventually able to learn everything I set out to learn. This course on Udemy was particularly helpful. I’m going to take a long weekend to give myself time to reflect on what I have learned…
Questions for myself about SwiftUI
This weekend I’m going to spend some time with SwiftUI. I tried to think of the most important questions that I want to answer. I have no idea how much progress I will make but if I come up with answers to these I’ll write about them.
Symbols and icons
I’m working on an icon picker for my app. The idea is to allow users to select a color and icon as a secondary way of identifying their lists. I have 10 colors picked out and the color picker is up and running, and I just wrapped up the first pass at the icon picker….
Updating my website
Sometime last year allowed myself to get away from working on this site. I was never “complete” to begin with, but it got to the point where the content on this site was no longer relevant to the work I do. Today I decided to spend some time trying to clean things up. I started…
FileMaker data to text file using Base64
At the August meeting of COFMUG (Central Ohio FileMaker User Group) we took a look at the Base64 functions in FileMaker 14. We were all familiar with the functions, but I had recently stumbled on the idea of using them to create simple text-based files. Get the file: The demo file contains a simple contact…
Simple Toggle Buttons in FileMaker 14
Recently I had a need for a simple toggle button. In the past I would have used object visibility (FMP13) or conditional formatting (FMP12 and earlier) to show or hide two or more buttons based on a variable or field. This time I took a minute to consider how I could use the new features…